Senior Architect, Europe

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

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Target Openings

What Is the Opportunity?

What Will You Do?

• Participates in or leads part of efforts in association with solutions, roadmaps, and architectural recommendations.
• Depending on size of application or scope of project, facilitates and/or executes the governance process (i.e. blueprint and design reviews) for projects.
• Implements the strategy for stability and performance of solutions (including - project level design, debug and performance analysis) at the applications and technology domains level.
• Provides input into portfolio or prioritization process as well as how escalation for remediation of application stability and performance will be managed for scope. Ability to prioritize on his/her own.
• Contributes to and influences adoption of new concepts, ideas, techniques, best practices and technology assistance (best practices, guidelines and models for supported technologies.).
• Collaborates with other architects, development groups, and OAI-Sys employees.
• May participate in enterprise engagements and initiatives like Centers of Excellence and owns deliverables associated with these efforts.
• May participate in development and production support of application utilities and owns deliverables associated with these efforts.
• May participate in vendor and product management strategies to establish required infrastructures and frameworks and owns deliverables associated with these efforts.
• Owns deliverables associated with product evaluations and Proof of Concepts'.
• Participates in the day to day execution of the architectural strategy.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Working knowledge of architecture technology directions.
• Working knowledge in enterprise, application, and information architecture.
• Working knowledge of product and/or project management and Software development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• General knowledge of technical reference architectures in Java, .NET, SQL and SOA required.
• General knowledge of experience with influencing people in a matrixed organization.
• Thorough knowledge of experience in multiple technologies and architectures.
• General knowledge of Insurance industry experience.
• General knowledge of experience in engaging with business stakeholders and turning requirements into IT solutions required.
• General knowledge of experience in providing architecture guidance to Development Teams.

• Thorough knowledge of experience in multiple technologies and architectures including:
• J2EE.
• Web Application Development (User & B2B).
• Service-Oriented Architecture & Web Services (SOAP, XML, REST).
• Application Frameworks (Spring, Struts, Hibernate, MVC, etc.).
• Middleware Technologies (Websphere, JBoss, Datapower).
• Relational Database Design (DB2/400, MS SQL Server).
• Document, Imaging, and Web Content Management (FileNet).
• Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, and ETL.
• Transaction Design (OLTP, Batch).
• Component Based Design.
• Application Integration.
• Performance Engineering.

• Demonstrates analytical and diagnostic skills dealing with issues that are often novel and not readily defined, lack known precedent or appear contradictory.
• Able to develop solutions by applying accepted processes or creating new approaches to leverage technology from abstract information.
• Optimizes the use of all available resources.
• Bases decisions on an accurate understanding of the situation.
• Keeps apprised of industry trends and applies this knowledge to business solutions.
• Maintains partnerships across the organization, and is able to influence peers and their management through an inclusive style and recognition of their abilities to achieve results.
• The success of the team is above own interest.
• Manages cross-functional objectives and/or priorities supporting assigned business area(s). Responsibilities are assigned with latitude for decision making.
• Results reviewed periodically according to predefined objectives.
• Sets level of risk taking, and gathers/synthesizes information to all appropriate levels of the organization.
• Supports all planning and budgeting/estimating done on a project level and is supportive of the business strategic plans.

What is a Must Have?

• Experience and knowledge in multiple technologies and architectures.

What Is in It for You?

• Private Medical Insurance: On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependents, at your expense through payroll deduction.
• Retirement: Travelers will make a core contribution of a percentage of salary to your Pension Plan. Additionally, if you decide to contribute to the plan, you will receive an increased company contribution.
• Holiday Entitlement: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year.
• Wellness Programme: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health programme provides access to free professional counseling services and other resources that support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programme that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences. 

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.